#OTD in 1981 – After 71 days on hunger strike, Kevin Lynch dies at Long Kesh prison.

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The eighth republican to join the hunger-strike for political status, on 23rd May, following the death of Patsy O’Hara, was twenty-five-year-old fellow INLA Volunteer Kevin Lynch from the small, North Derry town of Dungiven who had been imprisoned since his arrest in 1976.

Image | Mural to Kevin Lynch in Dún Geimhin/Dungiven, Do Derry | Extramural Activity

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